I've just installed GhostBSD and now I want to install the nvidia drivers but it tells me that I need the system source tree. I've tried using sysinstall to no avail and there was something on sourceforge about using subversion but nothing is working. Please help, I only have vesa working now.

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A-dog wrote:I've just installed GhostBSD and now I want to install the nvidia drivers but it tells me that I need the system source tree. I've tried using sysinstall to no avail and there was something on sourceforge about using subversion but nothing is working. Please help, I only have vesa working now.

It usually starts with nvidia cards but you can open a console and make:

A-dog wrote:I've just installed GhostBSD and now I want to install the nvidia drivers but it tells me that I need the system source tree. I've tried using sysinstall to no avail and there was something on sourceforge about using subversion but nothing is working. Please help, I only have vesa working now.

It usually starts with nvidia cards but you can open a console and make:

A-dog wrote:I've just installed GhostBSD and now I want to install the nvidia drivers but it tells me that I need the system source tree. I've tried using sysinstall to no avail and there was something on sourceforge about using subversion but nothing is working. Please help, I only have vesa working now.

It usually starts with nvidia cards but you can open a console and make:

/usr/src may be the problem. I seem to have [sys] directories inside each other in /usr/src/sys/sys/sys .... and they go on forever. Should I reinstall GhostBSD and try again or is there a way to fix the directory corruption.

May not be a bug in the os, it may be a bug in my motherboard. I switched to BSD from debian linux because of a conflict with the linux kernel and the MB bios. I bought a Z77 MSI MPOWER uefi MB and it doesn't play well.

doesn't populate the /usr/src/sys directory. The tar file ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/relea ... SE/src.txz does. I needed the kernel source code before anything would work. After compiling the nvidia-driver, nvidia-xconfig, and nvidia-settings I need to create a /boot/loader.conf file. One doesn't exist now.Once all of that happened it ran beautifully.Thank you for your help